MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

'A short sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided oyer, by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper,' S.M!,' on Saturday morn-" ing. Robert Agnew M'Callum and ■Peter Hngies, for drunkenness, were fined 10b. and 20s. respectively. Default was fixed at 48 hours and 14 days in each oase. What was described as a most brutal unpfovoted. assault was made by Thomas Patrick Stack upon Richard [William Bartrum. Inspector Hendrey said'that- Stack went up to Bartrum nvhen the latter; was standing quietly on a street'cornef and-knocked him down.. His Wofship characterised the assault as a most dastardly one, and inflicted a fine of £4, the alternative being fixed at a month's detention. Edward George Sayer and Michael Crowley pleaded guilty to fighting in Marion Street on Friday afternoon. His Worship asked accused what the "scrap" was about, and was told that it was a tame affair, nobody_ being hurt. "Oh, well," said the Magistrate, "you will each bo" fined ten shillings for scrapping." The alternative was fixed at 48 hours' imprisonment. Michael Crowley was also charged with having received an antimony toilet set, valued at 17s. 6d., tho property of some .person or persons unknown, knowing that the goods had been dishonestly obtained. Accused pleaded guilty. Inspector Hendrey said that accused had tried to explain how ho had become,possessed of the articles by stating that he had,purchased,them from a man in the street whom ho did not know, for .55., and be thought the Ebods _ were silver. Crowley was fined <os., in default seven days in gaol. A further remand was i granted in • the case of Donald Poison, who is charged with .--indecently assaulting a female.